Heels are really hard to wear. I feel bad for every girl that has to wear heels or chooses to wear heels. They're not fun.
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.